FOREIGN RELATIONS.


it has collected, in relation to depredations committed in Texas by the Comanches,-
although a great effort has been made in that State to cast the blame thereof
on the
Kickapoos or on the Lipans. The commission, not knowing whether the government
of Coahuila has made any report concerning the attitude of the Indians, deems
it its
duty to state what that attitude is, since it undoubtedly requires the adoption
of
prompt measure inasmuch as many Indians, it is said, including some Comanches,
daily
congregate at the points above mentioned. The accounts published in the Texas
newspapers confirm those of this side, and in view of this situation great
anxiety is
felt in the towns on both frontiers which should without doubt be quieted.
  In making your report to the President, you will be pleased, citizen minister,
to in-
form him that these statements are furnished in advance of the report to
be made by
the commission on closing its labors, because a situation is arising on the
frontier, by
reason of the large numbers of Indians collected there, who threaten to disturb
the
peace of that section. It has, moreover, seemed proper to give some account
of the an-
tecedents of the Kickapoos and Lipans, as well as of what really took place
on the oc-
casion of the attack on the 18th of May last by-General Mackenzie.
  Independence and liberty. Candela, July 2d, 1873.
                                      J. GALINDO.
                                      FRANCISCO VALDEZ GOMEZ,
                                                                Secretary.
  To the Citizen MINISTER OF FOREIGN RELATIONS,
                                  City of Mexico.



                                  No. 495.

                               [Translation.]

                       Se4ior ]lariscal to Mr. 'Fish.

                                           LEGATION OF MEXICO,
                         Washington, May 5, 1874. (Received May 6.)
   Mr. SECRETARY: As long ago as last summer I received papers and
 urgent appeals to represent to the Government of the United States
 that great crimes were being committed in Sonora, in the Mexican
 Republic, by the tribe of Indians whose chief is one Cochise, and whose
 residence is in Arizona, on a reservation which borders on Mexico. In-
 ferring, however, that the authorities at Washington had official knowl-
 edgý of the facts, I refrained from taking this step, and confined
my-
 self to consulting my government, which, in its turn, did nothing,
 expecting that the Government of the United States would apply a
 remedy to so lamentable a state of things, which had been brought
 about by the conduct of its own agents. Nevertheless, no change in
 the situation has been observed as yet, nor does it appear that any
 effort has bean made to improve it.
   In view of these facts, my government has finally authorized me to
 call attention to the matter, hoping that, when all the facts which char-
 acterize it shall have been examined, effective measures will be adopted
 to prevent the State of Sonora from continuing to be the scene of the
 depredations of Indians who live under the tutelage of the United
 States.
   Besides the information which is doubtless in possession of the
 Interior Department in relation to this matter, and probably in that
 of the War Department, I have seen in the documents on foreign
 relations, published with the last message of the President, that
 the Honorable Mr. Foster, in two successive notes, dated respectively
 August 15 and 27, 1873, informed you of the excitement occasioned
 in the Mexican press by the depredations to which I refer. For this
 reason I shall not dwell upo1   these crimes, or the causes which gave


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